C, age 34.

My old friend tells me about a girl he is considering adoring. He wants to experience infatuation, has no need of the follow-up. She works as a model of traditional Korean dress and he tells me this, it is the first fact I know about her and for a long time the only one. From this I imagine demure, beautiful, pale-skinned, down-turned black eyes.

In anticipation he tells me about her old boyfriend, who she will most likely return to because she craves unhappiness. He is almost apologetic, then, when his cards reveal no drama, just two souls at ease with themselves, the only thing between them their mutual attraction. It's easier this way he says.